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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 07:00:03 +0200
From: Patrick Proniewski <patpro@...pro.net>
To: passwords@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Password creation policies
On 08 avr. 2016, at 00:20, e@...tmx.net wrote:
>> We also provide our staff with a self hosted password storage web application.
>
> ../..
> Besides that, trusting your password to a program raises some certain "identity issues": You do not authenticate yourself in this case, you authenticate a program. I do not want to allow a program potentially impersonate myself.
In our particular case, the password safe can technically open some kind of sessions (rdp, ssh) on user's behalf but that's a very unpopular feature (web client...). Our goal here is to promote long and unique passwords by telling the user s/he is not forced to remember those pwd. It allows us to securely transmit passwords too (read only or read write delegation, or changing owners).
patpro
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